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  "normalForm": true,
  "headword": "POTIUS",
  "etymology": [
    {
      "period": "PIE",
      "form": "*pót-i-",
      "def": "",
      "certitude": true
    },
    {
      "period": "PIt",
      "form": "*poti-, *pot-ē-",
      "def": "'master, in control of', 'to be master'",
      "certitude": true
    }
  ],
  "dataFormat": "cent",
  "meanings": [
    {
      "definition": "In a better way, preferably",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "twjexah",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Amph. 935 te, summe Iuppiter, quaeso, Amphitruoni ut ... iratus sies. :: a, propitius sit potius.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "gfubkq",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "wxmbccj",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "ywprc",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "xij",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "ogslyype",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "More willingly",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "wxmbccj",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Amph. 455 si me inritassis, hodie lumbifragium hinc auferas. :: abeo potius.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "twjexah",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "Better, more suitably, correctly",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "ywprc",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Asin. 653 quo nos vocabis nomine? :: libertos. :: non patronos? :: id potius.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "sayfml",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "twjexah",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "More probably, more likely",
      "construct": "Potius + future/subjunctive",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "sayfml",
          "category": "Modal: epistemic",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Curc. 694 collum obstringe, abduce istum in malam crucem! :: quidquid est, ipse ibit potius (i. e. ultro ibit, criminibus suis perditus?).",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "ywprc",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "ogslyype",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "It is better to",
      "construct": "Potius est, unde / ut",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "gfubkq",
          "category": "Modal: deontic acceptability",
          "emergence": 4,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "AUG. civ. 6, 8 p. 260, 10 D. potius est, unde gratiae debeantur histrionibus, qui oculis hominum pepercerunt nec omnia spectaculis nudaverunt, quae sacrarum aedium parietibus occuluntur.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "twjexah",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "xij",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "More rightfully",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "xij",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Rud. 1071 qui tuum potiust quam meum, quod in mari prehendi? (1069 iurene anne iniuria).",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "gfubkq",
                "cert": true
              },
              {
                "rel": "mvjgxb",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "twjexah",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "Rather",
      "construct": "Potius quam",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "ogslyype",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -3,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "PLAUT. Asin. 192 nobis meretricibus lucro fuisti potius quam decori tibi.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "sayfml",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "twjexah",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "In addition, besides",
      "construct": "Et potius",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "nxm",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "CARM. de resurr. 293 vos ... dominum ... negastis et iustos potius crudeli caede necastis.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "isk",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "Indeed",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "mvjgxb",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 5,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "SACR. Leon. 565 ut, quod nostro servitio geritur, te potius operante formetur.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "xij",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "Principally, especially",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "zzxf",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": -2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "TER. Hec. 481 segreganda aut mater a me est … aut Philumena; nunc me pietas matris potius commodum suadet sequi.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [],
            "destinations": [
              {
                "rel": "isk",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "unspecified": []
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "definition": "More, with more intensity, strength",
      "construct": "_",
      "group": "_",
      "analysis": [
        {
          "id": "isk",
          "category": "Not modal",
          "emergence": 2,
          "disparition": "None",
          "attestation": "ITALA Ioh. 3, 19 dilexerunt homines potius tenebras quam lucem.",
          "certainty": true,
          "relationships": {
            "origins": [
              {
                "rel": "zzxf",
                "cert": true
              }
            ],
            "destinations": [],
            "unspecified": [
              {
                "rel": "nxm",
                "cert": true
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}